Yesterday the USS Vandegrift became the first US Navy ship to visit Vietnam since the Vietnam War.
I cut my left thumb with a pneumatic grinder on the upper level (port side) of the Vandegrift’s engine room when I worked on the ship as an apprentice pipefitter in the early 1990s. We had finished a...
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Archive for November, 2003
Vandegrift
War Profiteering for the Little Guy
Kellogg, Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary with all the Iraq contracts, is hiring. “Security Technicians” appear to be in high demand, but so are HR generalists, carpenters, plumbers, planners, schedulers, truck drivers, IT techs, and engineers of various sorts.
Follow the link, click ‘Search Jobs’, and select Iraq under location. Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and...
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Morning at the Laundromat
The Laundromat may be near the eastern fringe of Broadway and Redondo, but it’s not the actual eastern edge. The Coffeeshop that doubles as a late-night Alcoholics Anonymous meeting place is the actual eastern edge of the neighborhood and the rest of the block to the east of that is the frontier between Broadway...
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